Nostalgia-free zone: Compared to modern restaurant food, Casa Grisanti’s grub...
I just glanced at the menu for tonight’s El Bulli “dinner and a movie” at Seviche, and 12 hours ahead of time, I’m already salivating. This is the lineup chef-owner Anthony Lamas posted on his Facebook...
View ArticleSteve Kaufman: Every great ethnic restaurant in Louisville comes with an...
Louisville has these amazing chefs from all over the world. Remarkable, yet unremarked upon in this small Southern city. But did you ever wonder why we have Malaysian, Iranian and Nuevo Pan Latino?...
View ArticleFour Roses Bourbon cocktail battle kicks off holiday season
Bars and restaurants along Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue are mixing up holiday-inspired cocktails for the chance of being named champion in Four Roses’ third annual Holiday Bourbon Battle. According...
View ArticlePeng Looi packs fusion injection into new Asiatique menu and Thursday wine...
Normally we put new menu information in our press release section because it’s not always news. The new lineup at Asiatique, however, is an exception because, well, it’s exceptional. Asiatique...
View ArticleStars and Gripes: C-J’s star ratings are an offense to serious restaurants
The first time I read a one-star restaurant review in the New York Times 20 years ago, I thought surely then-critic Ruth Reichl (the best there ever was) was teeing it up for a long-ball lashing. I was...
View ArticleSpring is near: Douglass Loop Farmers Market opens next weekend
Yes, we’ve seen some flurries in the air this week, but spring is right around the corner. And that means farmers markets are almost here. Last weekend, the Flea Off Market had its first flea market of...
View ArticleLouisville Originals suing former treasurer, Asiatique partner Pabs Sembillo,...
Pabs Sembillo, co-owner of Asiatique Restaurant, is being sued for embezzlement by the Louisville Originals, a coalition of local independent restaurateurs. Sembillo served several years as treasurer...
View ArticleHeard at Bourbon & Bowties: new restaurants, chefs moving, lawsuit settling,...
That group gathered last night at Corbett’s: An American Place, where they cooked for 650 attendees of the fourth-annual Bourbon & Bowties fundraiser for Kosair Children’s Hospital. Most local...
View ArticleLeave your comfort zone in 2014 with these dining and drinking challenges
I talk a lot with people about what they like and don’t like about restaurant food and drink, and inevitably, the issue often comes down to timidity. Somebody’s grossed out by this food or has bad...
View ArticleWard remembers 18 years as Jack Fry’s chef, eyes future as restaurant owner
When Shawn Ward unknots his apron and packs his knives on March 27, he’ll end a remarkable 18-year run at Jack Fry’s that turned the modest restaurant into a nationally acclaimed Louisville standard....
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